Chicory Week

& the Sagra di Radicchio

Seattle’s Premier Chicory Festival

Inspired by the sagre (festivals, usually honoring regional cuisine) of Italy, Chicory Week is a festive collaboration between local farms and Seattle’s best restaurants. This week and weekend is educational, delicious, social, and bitter in the best way.

We are Chicory Week

We are an organized group of farmers, food lovers, restaurateurs, and vegetable enthusiasts. For one week each year, we promote the heck out of radicchio and its place in the PNW food scene. Our goal is to increase radicchio consumption, production, and enjoyment by sharing our passion with others.

Though our focus is only one week, we live to celebrate radicchio whenever it is in season, and we support growers of other amazing local produce at all times.

You can participate by supporting your local foodshed and buying radicchio and other vegetables at farmers markets and local farms.

Days are getting shorter and radicchio is getting big. They grow up so fast 💚💚💚 These beauties grown by @wildrootsfarmer and @arie.mary near Portland, OR. Lots growing & going on in Portland in the world of vegetables!
Check out the upcoming 9/12 and 9/13 Field Days in Aurora & Corvallis, OR.
And after you come to the Sagra di Radicchio in Seattle on 11/2, check out the Fill Your Pantry & Winter Vegetable Sagra on 12/8!
Along with winter squash, cabbage, and other cold veggies, radicchio will have a presence (and an envoy from Seattle 😉)
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#sagradiradicchio #pnwgrown #wintervegetables #growyourown #radicchio #chicory #saladlife

⚡️ F R I D A Y P L A N S & P O E M S⚡️ (to be sung to the tune of ‘On Top of Spaghetti’) .
Just under some salad, I found a real prize
This veg was most bitter, I can’t trust my eyes
I ate all the purple, I ate all the green
I ate salad-pizza, and felt like a queen.
Radicchio by @localrootsfarm ‘Za by @postalleypizza .
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#radicchio #sagradiradicchio #eaterseattle #seattlepizza #pnwgrown #seattleeats #chicoryweek

When your escarole is this big, you don’t need a clean shirt. @earlybirdfarm swears he’s gonna make it to the Sagra di Radicchio this year on November 2. Are you?! Happy LDW to all the farms and restaurants who probably aren’t taking the day off! Thank you for feeding our communities.
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#escarole #chicory #damn #labordayfarming #sagradiradicchio #pnwgrown #saladseason

So many wonderful farmers, gardeners, and enthusiasts have asked questions about GROWING RADICCHIO. I haven’t always had the answers, and our farm partners (fahm pahdnuhs, if you want to sound like Doc Holliday in Tombstone) haven’t always had the time to answer in depth!
The first and most immediate way to scratch your itch for knowledge is to head to our website and read Josh Volk’s blog post about his visit to Chioggia, Italy in late 2014. He toured T&T, a seed company specializing in radicchio and other vegetables, at their commercial farm and obviously took great notes as well as great photos.
The second way to pour cold water on your burning radicchio questions is to attend the Sagra di Radicchio in November! Not only are we having the main Sagra event again, but we’re having a Pre-Show Talk/Q and A with the farmers for growers who want to ask super specific questions about seed, variety, technique, day length, transplanting, etc. etc. you get it!
More info about the Pre-Show Talk coming soon. In the meantime, head to our website, pahdnuh, and get to readin’!
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#sagradiradicchio #radicchio #seedcompany #tandtseeds #italiangrown #vegetables #salad #growyourown #infarmation #tombstone #seattlefood #pnweats

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's been cool and drizzly and cloudy and damp, but have you SEEN the radicchio selection at @sfmamarkets?! While cruising the Capitol Hill market last Sunday, I saw escarole, chioggia, sugarloaf, and frisee! @localrootsfarmstand even has Castelfranco and Treviso!! 😭❤️ For a fall specialty, it tastes delicious in the height of the summer.
Head to a farmer's market, farmstand, or good grocer near you.
All aboard the radicchio train! 🚞
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#seattlefarmersmarket #seattleeats #eatlocal #radicchio #chicory #saladseason @earlybirdfarm @springtimefarm @spoonfullfarm @skinnykittyfarms @steelwheel.farm

Happy Solstice and Happy June-uary in Seattle, everyone! Hot off the digital press is Grand Central Bakery pro @lauraohm’s recipe for Caramelized Apple and Radicchio Galettes. If you were at the RAD Pizza Party at @londonplaneseattle last year, you know what these radiant hexagons of joy taste like. They are sweet, tart, herbaceous, and complex. They’re crispy and flakey and gooey and chewy. Are you hungry now? I would eat these for breakfast every day in the fall if I could. Every. Damn. Day.
Go read about it on our blog at CHICORYWEEK.com.
Stoked to be planning #chicoryweek2019 and already dreaming about pizza-bilities 🍕🥧 and all the other goodness that comes with the most bitter time of year.
Until then... go get some sunlight, and eat some strawberries! And buy pie crust from @grandcentralbakery - your summer fruits will thank you! ☀️❤️☀️❤️
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#galette #radicchio #appletart #applerecipe #galetterecipe #tartlet #grandcentralbakery #sagradiradicchio

Is it the season for amaro? Always. Can-i-get-a-recipe? Absolutely.
It's time to contact your spice people and get going. Chicory root is our special ingredient (duh) but there are infinite possibilities (see: @townshendsdistillery and... what are your faves?!). let those creative juices and high proofs flow! we shared a lot of amaro last year with friends and guests at the Sagra. Can’t wait to do it again in 2019! In the mean time, please feel free to make your own.
Also... we have a blog! and on that blog, in addition to @londonplaneseattle's amaro recipe, we have a cute Chicory Week origin/falling in love story and links to some special art. We'll continue to post RAD stuff on there, and will keep you updated. Stay bitter / cin cin!
📸: @shawnlinehan .
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#bitterisbetter #radcontent #radicchio #chicory #chicoryweek2019 #amaro #pnw

Save. The. Date.
The Sagra di Radicchio is happening in 2019 on Saturday, November 2!
And our new website is ready to tell you all about it. You can read about last year’s Sagra, see a lot of beautiful photos (like this one) by @shawnlinehan, and find out where we got some of our beautiful art for the event.
Coming soon: yasuaki saito’s killer amaro recipe! .
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#chicoryweek #radicchio #endive #escarole #treviso #seattlefood #seattlefoodie #seattleitalian

🌬there’s a breath of fresh heirloom air in your podcast library. @piperknowsfood IS MOUTHY. Food/farm/restaurant/alive friends, you should give this a listen. Lane Selman of @culinarybreedingnetwork is interviewed in this one (YAY LANE!) but all of the episodes out rn are thought-provoking, exciting, frustrating, and yummy.
Piper talks all about her favorite strawberry varietals, gives a solid pie recipe, and both of these women discuss the importance of breeding seed for flavor, nutrition, and resilience. Science-y, fun-ny, mouth-y. What a seed-y weekend it’s been!!! Hope your farms and gardens are well. Tag us in your bitter pics, send us those early summer recipes, we’re in this together 🥗🍓❤️ oh and @mouthypod, please come to the Sagra di Radicchio!
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#mouthypod #portlandfoodie #heirloomseeds #growyourown #sagradiradicchio #chicoryweek #culinarybreedingnetwork